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10 Cash - Guangxu With minting authority, brass
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint (Hubu), Qing Dynasty |
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| Year | 1906-1907 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#10s |
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| Reverse script | Chinese, Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Board of Revenue Mint in Beijing produced this issue during the final push to standardize Qing coinage across a fractured system of provincial mints, each striking to its own tolerances. The Hubu mint was meant to serve as the model — a central authority imposing uniformity that the provinces had resisted for decades. It largely failed at that goal before the dynasty collapsed entirely in 1912.
The brass composition reflects a deliberate departure from the red copper issues more common to provincial output at the time, and helps distinguish genuine Hubu strikes from the considerable number of contemporary imitations produced by smaller unofficial operations.